June 24, 2004
The Boscombe Bowmen. Archaeologists say that some of the builders of Stonehenge have been found.
In somewhat sillier news, the archdruid of Wales wants Stonehenge back.
Interesting finds, homunculus -- thanks.
Ohboyohboy this is neat. Thanks homunculus!
And thanks for updating all those threads. It looked like a pixie had visited Mofi in the night.
This is really interesting! Although from reading the article, it doesn't sound like they have any definitive proof that these people actually built Stonehenge.
Not that it's possible to get any definitive proof.
Stonehenge
Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man
And the children dance to the pipes of pan
First they built Woodhenge and Strawhenge, but then a big bad wolf came and blew 'em down...
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so who's going to help me build bananahenge?
awesome link, thank you!!
bananahenge
...a big bad monkey will just gobble it up.
bananahenge
where the baboons howl
where chimps fling poo and Nostril prowls
Here's a MeFi post on the Amesbury Archer.
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananahenge...
Bananahenge for monkeys...and melonhenge for Turkmenbashi.
I musk be going now.
I'll see your badgers, and raise ye a pair of Bodgers.
More archaeology fun: Mystery of Iron Age woman with rings on her toes
...
There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers, and a Superintendent's House,
There are masses of goats, and a Polar, and different kinds of mouse...
-- A. A. Milne, "At the Zoo"
[How I miss the late Gerald Durrell]
Thank gods for that. If it were found in Belgium, there'd be a whole lot of explaining would have to be done.
Stonehenge extensively 'tidied up' and rearranged by the Romans?
New owners are always like that aren't they? Knock a wall through here, patio, conservatory out the back; that sort of thing.
"You could put 10 archaeologists in a room, and you'd get at least 11 theories," said Dr. Andrew Fitzpatrick of Wessex Archaeology, a private company involved in the excavation, which was approved by English Heritage, which manages Stonehenge.
Even if one of them had a bullwhip?
Fascinating article, munkie. I think it's the mystery of why it's there, as much as the beauty of the thing, that keeps people interested.
If the Stones Could Speak: Searching for the Meaning of Stonehenge
Going back a bit further into the past: Humans' early arrival in Britain: Researchers have discovered stone tools in Norfolk, UK, that suggest that early humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago - or even earlier.
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